Harvard to restore FDR's student suite

Harvard University is planning to restore the luxury suite where Franklin Delano Roosevelt lived during his four years at the school.

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How does Obama compare to FDR? Ask Kitty

Record unemployment, stock market gyrations, economic anxiety: For my generation, these grim tidings have a familiar ring. So does the voice of a new president offering hope in the first 100 days of his administration. Then as now, there were people who were for him and people against him — but whatever your politics are, the parallels are undeniable.I was 9 years old when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March 1933. The country was deeply mired in the Depression, but my family was luckier than many: My father was a coal miner. Depression or no Depression, people needed coal to heat their homes and to cook (we had a coal stove), and in northeastern Pennsylvania, the mines stayed open.I also had a grandmother and three bachelor uncles who were all helping keep food on the table. But I can remember other men not so fortunate coming to our door, looking for something to eat. My grandmother always sent them around to the back door, and she always gave them food — but never money.

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Landslide a loose concept at best

First, the easy ones: The 1936 election, where Franklin Delano Roosevelt beat Alf Landon 523 to 8 in the electoral vote and 61 percent to 37 percent in the popular vote, was definitely a landslide.

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Historic FDR artifacts up for auction in Texas

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's trademark fedora, the last check he ever signed, and watercolor sketches for the unfinished portrait he sat for on the day he died are among hundreds of historic artifacts and documents headed for the auction block.

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Plan Revived for FDR Memorial in NYC

George Washington, a Virginian, has his statue on Wall Street, Ohio-born Ulysses S. Grant has his tomb overlooking the Hudson. But for reasons nobody can easily explain, New York native son Franklin Delano Roosevelt has no official memorial in this city.

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Obama: Reappraise Wall Street Values

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told Wall Street investors Monday that several of them have been too focused on their own gain at the expense of struggling Americans and echoed Franklin Delano Roosevelt's call for a "reappraisal of values."

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Truman and the Principles of U.S. Foreign Policy : Jimmy Carter rejected the postwar consensus. President Obama appears to be following a similar path.

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In response to these financial crises, the federal government and the Federal Reserve System have moved to shore up some of the markets and, in the case of AIG Insurance Corp., the Fed actually has taken a huge ownership share in the business itself, a first in U.S. history.

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As Smith remarked of his harsh treatment at the hands of one-time friends and allies, "Unless you're ready to subscribe to the New Deal 100 per cent and sign your life name on the dotted line, you're a Tory, you're a prince of privilege, you're a reactionary, you're a …

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Why Barack Obama is not a Nazi

The hilarious attempts of the far-right to make President Obama out to be a Nazi are hard to take seriously. But we must and here is why.

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Having a central currency – let's call it the Zhou-Triffin Doubloon (ZTD) – managed by a supra-national organisation would make it more difficult for any one country to get into too much debt to another.

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FDR's New Deal Compared to the Stimulus Package

Would it were not so, but I can not write any better a critique of Keynesian economic thinking as misunderstood by the Obamunists than this adaptation from a speech delivered Jan. 9, 2009, in Washington D.C. at a seminar sponsored by Hillsdale College's Allan P. Kirby, Jr.

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Why "Public Works" Spending Won't Work Like It Used To

I'm a Republican, and I voted for Obama. So while I certainly don't want to see Obama fail, I would like to see a bit more creativity in his stimulus plan. Interestingly, he seems to have borrowed a few ideas from the economic recovery suggestions of Mike Huckabee.

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72 Years Ago, the United Auto Workers Had the Sympathy of the Nation

On November 18, 1936, the United Auto Workers launched a series of strikes across the nation against General Motors. The BBC reported the strike was "heard around the world."

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"I think this is the passing of an old order," CNN senior political analyst David Gergen said as the results rolled in Tuesday night and the outcome became increasingly evident. More Articles

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Why do we allow fear to dictate our choices?

This is a question that I have asked myself many times in the past weeks. It puzzles me. Our country was not founded on fear, it was founded by a people who stood up and fought for their rights rather than be subjugated and ruled by a faraway king.

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However, McCain's attempt to conflate Obama with European socialism and both with Soviet-style communism is as self evidently absurd as his conflation of Joe the Plumber's fiscal fate with Exxon-Mobil's.

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The Democrats need to be careful about the intensity of their criticism of Sarah Palin.

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Today on his CNN Headline News show, Glenn Beck went on a rant against former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, blaming him for making the Great Depression "go on and on and on for a decade." He then added:

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For the first time publicly, Naomi Wolf traced the origins of contemporary developments back to President Bush's Nazi grandfather, Prescott Bush, and his plan to launch a fascist coup in the 1930's.

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In America's darkest hour, Franklin Delano Roosevelt urged the nation not to succumb to "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror." But that was then.

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A list of quotes about peace. I'm a quote-aholic and many of these will be on my walls or in my work cubicle soon.

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Long before Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray and Sirhan Sirhan, there was Miami's Guiseppe Zangara, a troubled man who nearly altered the course of U.S.

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The address is often referred to as the "Four Freedoms" speech, for Roosevelt asserted that everyone in the world ought to enjoy freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

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FDR's D-Day Prayer With the Nation

For the audio of this prayer and other resources, please visit Newt Gingrich's website.

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It was 1940, the Nazis were in the ascendant, the Blitz at its deadliest, and Britain's last hope was to bring a reluctant United States into the war. So it was that the largest covert operation in UK history was launched. William Boyd sheds light on a forgotten spy ring.

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